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News: iPhone brawls erupt outside Apple Store
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iPhone brawls erupt outside Apple Store
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iPhone brawls erupt outside
Pasadena Apple store
PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Fights erupted outside the Pasadena Apple store Friday morning, as the frenzy for the new iPhone 5S and 5C models reached new heights.
Punches were thrown just outside the doors of the Pasadena Apple store. Police stormed in and arrested two men. Later, two women -- one of them pregnant -- got into a brawl on the ground, as their boyfriends faced off in an angry confrontation. One of those men ended up running into the street, throwing himself against a passing truck. He too was detained by police. In total, three people were arrested.
The violence unfolded as hundreds of people stood in line for hours, a handful of them for several days, waiting to buy the new iPhone 5S or the 5C. Another added element this time, aside from the heated brawls, was the fact that 80-100 people in line were shuttled in from Skid Row.
"It ballooned really quickly. In the end, a huge group came in behind us," described one witness.
Witnesses say the people were driven into Pasadena by a man who promised to pay them $20 in exchange for each iPhone claim ticket they handed him.
"I buy phones and I resell them...for a lot more," said the man, who did not wish to be identified. "It's not illegal. It's not against the law. I'm buying them at full retail price."
Police agree - it's not illegal. But Apple Corporate caught wind of the man's plan and refused to sell him more than about a dozen phones. He, in turn, refused to pay the Skid Row folks who waited in line. That's when the chaos erupted.
"All I know is that we sat here, and now we're not being paid," said one woman.
"He got us down here, we spent the night all night. We got no money, we got nothing," said another person from Skid Row.
The man behind the resell scheme was later confronted by the Skid Row crowd, demanding money and clawing at the phones in his hands. Police had to drive him away for his safety.
Meantime, Apple fans who braved a long night watched in disgust, saying all of it seemed unfair.
"It's annoying to hear all this ruckus all night, yelling, cussing, smoking cigarettes. I feel like it wasn't fair for them to just sit out here, but it happens. It's life," said Dariel Johnson, a Pasadena resident.
Even amid the drama, the die-hard iPhone fans were still excited for the iPhone 5S and 5C.
Francisco Naranjo, who got the first iPhone 5S from the store, came out victorious.
"I think, for me, it's pretty fun," said Naranjo.
The iPhone 5S is available in silver, gold and gray and runs a new chip, the A7, that is up to twice as fast as the A6. It has a fingerprint reader, called Touch ID, so instead of entering a passcode, you can just touch the home button to unlock the phone.
The 5S also has a better camera with larger pixels, called iSight. There's a two-tone flash feature that is designed not to clash with the colors in the room or a person's skin color. The camera also has "auto image stabilization" to avoid blurry pictures and a slow-motion camera for video.
The iPhone 5S starts at $199 with a two-year contract for the 16-gigabyte model.
The iPhone 5C is the less expensive version, available in green, blue, yellow, pink and white. The 5C costs $99 for a 16-gigabyte model and $199 for a 32 gigabyte model with a two-year wireless contract.
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Homeless pregnant women fighting in the streets! 
Not that guy bussing in hundreds of homeless from Skid Row to wait in line for him!
Then later he had to be escorted out by police for his safety!
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All three fights DID NOT have to be only black people.
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That man is SO wrong for doing that to those homeless people. He should be put in jail for lying to them and not giving them money cause the store would only allow him to buy a dozen phones..
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All three fights DID NOT have to be only black people. |
They were pissed after not getting their money! 
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What a gooddamn dramatic mess.
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It'll be worse on Black Friday 
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It's never THAT serious tho
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LMAO. I saw some fights on the news earlier this morning. Some guy paid homeless people to stand in line for him in NYC. I ordered my 32GB white & silver one online this morning at 2:01 am CST. At first T-Mobile said 7-10 days but now it's already shipped and will be here Tuesday, coming from Lexington, KY.
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Let me explain the fight that went down in front of me...****, I was IN the fight.
So, I arrived at like 4AM and was 3rd in line. The AT&T store was next to a kilwan's that had seating and all of those great things. So I sit in the next logical seat that would say "Hey, I'm in line!" So time goes by, and people follow suit, with the line going in one organized "line." So this guy comes at like 6ish and he goes to the end of the line, like everyone else. He then walked back up to where we were and sat next to the door. Now mind you, the first guy is sitting on a bench DIRECTLY across from the AT&T store, the next guy was in a seat behind him, and I was behind him. So I just KNEW some **** was going to pop off when the AT&T employees started piling in. Mind you me and my friend were sitting next to each other with our heads down. So the first slew of employee's come in, and I just hear this random uproar of just movement. I look up and these.....*calms down*...PEOPLE form an entire new line. And GUESSSSSSS who was in front...the guy that arrived at 6. So the guy that WAS first was like "Oh No, That's not fair" blah blah blah, and then both guys that were "first in line" started going IN on each other, I'm talking dragging for the GAWDS. Then it simmered down, then the "new first in line guy" looked at the other guy and was like "You got something to say, cause you keep looking at me. If you got something to say SAY IT" Then it all popped off again, then security pulled them aside and all that.
After that, they decided to announce that there were no gold iPhone but they had PLENTY of the iPhone 5C
At that time I departed.
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Originally posted by Nicki Minaj
Let me explain the fight that went down in front of me...****, I was IN the fight.
So, I arrived at like 4AM and was 3rd in line. The AT&T store was next to a kilwan's that had seating and all of those great things. So I sit in the next logical seat that would say "Hey, I'm in line!" So time goes by, and people follow suit, with the line going in one organized "line." So this guy comes at like 6ish and he goes to the end of the line, like everyone else. He then walked back up to where we were and sat next to the door. Now mind you, the first guy is sitting on a bench DIRECTLY across from the AT&T store, the next guy was in a seat behind him, and I was behind him. So I just KNEW some **** was going to pop off when the AT&T employees started piling in. Mind you me and my friend were sitting next to each other with our heads down. So the first slew of employee's come in, and I just hear this random uproar of just movement. I look up and these.....*calms down*...PEOPLE form an entire new line. And GUESSSSSSS who was in front...the guy that arrived at 6. So the guy that WAS first was like "Oh No, That's not fair" blah blah blah, and then both guys that were "first in line" started going IN on each other, I'm talking dragging for the GAWDS. Then it simmered down, then the "new first in line guy" looked at the other guy and was like "You got something to say, cause you keep looking at me. If you got something to say SAY IT" Then it all popped off again, then security pulled them aside and all that.
After that, they decided to announce that there were no gold iPhone but they had PLENTY of the iPhone 5C
At that time I departed. |
 You should've gotten the White & Silver one! 
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Originally posted by Nicki Minaj
Let me explain the fight that went down in front of me...****, I was IN the fight.
So, I arrived at like 4AM and was 3rd in line. The AT&T store was next to a kilwan's that had seating and all of those great things. So I sit in the next logical seat that would say "Hey, I'm in line!" So time goes by, and people follow suit, with the line going in one organized "line." So this guy comes at like 6ish and he goes to the end of the line, like everyone else. He then walked back up to where we were and sat next to the door. Now mind you, the first guy is sitting on a bench DIRECTLY across from the AT&T store, the next guy was in a seat behind him, and I was behind him. So I just KNEW some **** was going to pop off when the AT&T employees started piling in. Mind you me and my friend were sitting next to each other with our heads down. So the first slew of employee's come in, and I just hear this random uproar of just movement. I look up and these.....*calms down*...PEOPLE form an entire new line. And GUESSSSSSS who was in front...the guy that arrived at 6. So the guy that WAS first was like "Oh No, That's not fair" blah blah blah, and then both guys that were "first in line" started going IN on each other, I'm talking dragging for the GAWDS. Then it simmered down, then the "new first in line guy" looked at the other guy and was like "You got something to say, cause you keep looking at me. If you got something to say SAY IT" Then it all popped off again, then security pulled them aside and all that.
After that, they decided to announce that there were no gold iPhone but they had PLENTY of the iPhone 5C
At that time I departed. |
Dang sis. 
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****ing ratchet. That's all I can say.
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You should've gotten the White & Silver one! |
No, that trick came outside and said "We only have the black"
I said, "There's no such thing as a black iPhone 5S"
She then looked at me and said "....Space.....Gray.."
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stuff like this makes me think the world is really coming to an end smh
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 @ Nicki Minaj
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Originally posted by Nicki Minaj
No, that trick came outside and said "We only have the black"
I said, "There's no such thing as a black iPhone 5S"
She then looked at me and said "....Space.....Gray.."
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"There's no such thing as a black iPhone 5S"
Clock ha!
T-Mobile didn't have any gold ones available immediately to ship online either (at least for existing customers). I wanted the silver one though. It's the only color I always buy. My iPad mini is also white and silver.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nicki Minaj
No, that trick came outside and said "We only have the black"
I said, "There's no such thing as a black iPhone 5S"
She then looked at me and said "....Space.....Gray.."
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ON THE FLOOOOOOOR
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